From: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
To: Michael Mann <mann@meteo.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: FYI
Date: Thu Mar 19 12:39:26 2009
Cc: Gavin Schmidt <gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov>

    Mike,
       I want to get the more extensive London paper in first.
    I hope my missive to the Chief Exec of the RMS does something next week.
     By the way the HC doesn't have a Director.
    John Mitchell is Head of Climate Science
    Chris Gordon is Deputy Director of the HC.
    It has never had a Director with that particular title.
    It is impossible for anyone to find this on their web site. Only if you
    were on the HC Scientific Review Group would you be aware.

    Cheers
    Phil
   At 12:24 19/03/2009, Michael Mann wrote:

     HI Phil,
     thanks, we've already seen numerous comments about this at RealClimate. Its a paper that
     is easily misunderstood and/or intentionally misrepresented by contrarians (or both).
     One possibility is that you might consider writing a guest article for RC placing this
     in proper perspective. What do you think?
     mike
     On Mar 19, 2009, at 6:52 AM, Phil Jones wrote:

     Gavin, Mike,
         See the link below! Don't alert anyone up to this for a while. See if they figure it
     out for themselves.
     I've sent this to the Chief Exec of the RMS, who said he was considering
     changing data policy with the RMS journals. He's away till next week. I just
     wanted him to see what a load of plonkers he's dealing with!  I'm hoping
     someone will pick this up and put it somewhere more prominently.
       The responses are even worse than you get on CA.
       I've written up the London paper for the RMS journal Weather,
     but having trouble with their new editor. He's coming up with the same
     naive comments that these responders are.  He can't understand
     that London has a UHI of X, but that X has got no bigger since 1900.
      I'm away all next week.
     Cheers
     Phil
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References

   1. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/18/finally-an-honest-quantification-of-urban-warming-by-a-major-climate-scientist/
   2. mailto:mann@psu.edu
   3. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/Mann/index.html
   4. http://www.essc.psu.edu/essc_web/news/DirePredictions/index.html

